Monday, June 23, 1924. First dawn to dusk transcontinental flight.
Protype of the excellent Curtiss P-1. The P-1 was the first of a series of "hawk" biplane fighter aircraft manufactured by Curtiss that would serve right up until the eve of World War Two.
1st Lt. Russell Maughan made the first dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States.
Landing at Crissy Field in San Francisco one minute before technical sundown, he had started the day off at Mitchel Field, Long Island and had flown his Curtiss P-1 across the country with stops in Dayton, Ohio; St. Joseph, Missouri; North Platte, Nebraska; Cheyenne, Wyoming and the Bonneville Salt Flats at Salduro
Maughan was a significant early military aviation pioneer who has appeared on this site before.
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